Nehemiah 6:8-15

8And I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

9For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be slackened from the work, that it be not carried out. — Now therefore strengthen my hands!

10And I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabeel, who had shut himself up. And he said, Let us meet together in the house of 1God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill thee; even in the night are they coming to kill thee.

11And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in.

12And I perceived, and behold, 2God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me; and Tobijah and Sanballat had hired him.

13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have wherewith to spread an evil report, that they might reproach me.

14My 3God, remember Tobijah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear.

15So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.